Mechanography - A new device for the assessment of muscle function in pediatrics

Pediatric Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-49

  Fricke, Oliver ^a,b   Weidler, Justine ^a   Tutlewski, Baerbel ^a   Schoenau, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DEVICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KINETICS; LEG; MALE; MECHANOGRAPHY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 33644816001     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000191580.07644.1c     Document Type: Article

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